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Risk of diabetic nephropathy in type 1 diabetes is associated with functional polymorphisms in RANTES receptor gene (CCR5): a sex-specific effect.
Diabetes - 1 Nov 2005
Mlynarski Wojciech M, Placha Grzegorz P, Wolkow Pawel P, Bochenski Jacek P, Warram James H, Krolewski Andrzej S
Abstract excerpt
Chemokines and their receptors have been implicated in the development of diabetic nephropathy. To determine whether the risk of diabetic nephropathy is influenced by two functional polymorphisms in the regulated upon activation normal T-cell expressed and secreted (RANTES) receptor gene (CCR5), we recruited patients with type 1 diabetes, including 496 case subjects with overt proteinuria or end-stage renal...
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